136 Minn. 93 | Minn. | 1917
The complaint in this case alleged that defendant was a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of Maine, maintaining its principal office and place of business in Minneapolis; that plaintiff, in September, 1915, recovered in the municipal court of Minneapolis a judgment against defendant in the sum of $449.67, which judgment was in the same month docketed in the district court; that an execution issued on this judgment in December, 1915, was returned wholly unsatisfied in June, 1916, and remained wholly unsatisfied. After alleging on information and belief that defendant has numerous creditors, whose names are unknown to plaintiff and cannot with due diligence be ascertained, and stating that plaintiff brings the action “as a representative of all the creditors of the defendant corporation,” judgment is demanded sequestrating “the stock, property, things in action and effects of said corporation,” .appointing a receiver for the same, and for such other and further relief as may be just and proper. There was an answer to this complaint, and a reply to the answer. Plaintiff moved on the pleadings for the appointment of a receiver. The court made an order appointing M. C. Bowler receiver “of the defendant corporation and of all its property, estate, things in action and effects within the borders of the state of Minnesota or subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of said state.” The case is before this court on defendant’s appeal from this order.
The action was brought under G. S. 1913, § 6634 (B. L. 1905, § 3173), which provides as follows:
“Upon complaint of a person obtaining judgment against a corporation or his representatives, made after the return unsatisfied of an execution issued thereon, the court may sequestrate the stock, property, things in action, and effects of such corporation, and appoint a receiver of the same.”
(1) The allegations of the complaint are not sufficient to authorize the appointment of a receiver under this statute; (2) the statute does not authorize the sequestration of the property within the state of a foreign corporation or the appointment of a receiver thereof.
“Beyond question, a state may through judicial proceedings, take possession of the assets of an insolvent foreign corporation within its limits, and distribute such assets or their proceeds among creditors according to their respective rights.” This was said of the inherent power of a court of equity. The statute of this state quoted above applies by its. terms to corporations, and is not limited to those organized under the laws of this state. The argument that the statute as it read prior' to the 1905
Order affirmed.